AUSTIN - Five El Paso lawmakers are among 38 Texas Democrats calling on federal authorities to review whether it’s legal for state leaders to deprive Planned Parenthood of Medicaid dollars.

The Office of the Inspector General of the Texas Health and Human Services Commission last month informed Planned Parenthood Clinics that their Medicaid funding would be terminated because of “a series of serious Medicaid program violations.”

The termination comes after a series of heavily edited videos were released that claimed to show that Planned Parenthood was illegally selling parts of aborted fetuses. A CNN investigation found possible deceptions in the videos and Planned Parenthood insists that they show no wrongdoing.

In a letter sent Wednesday to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the Texas Democrats called on federal officials to investigate whether denying Medicaid to Planned Parenthood might violate federal law.

“As elected officials who are committed to strengthening women’s health-care access, we are deeply troubled by this recent effort and share the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) concern that (the Department of Health and Human Services’) actions might be in violation of federal law,” the letter said.

Chris Cutrone, a spokesman for the HHSC’s Office of the Inspector General, declined to comment on the legislators’ letter.

Federal judges have stayed attempts by Republican leaders in Alabama, Louisiana, Arkansas and Utah to cut Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood in the aftermath of the controversial videos.

El Paso no longer has a Planned Parenthood clinic. But Sen. Jose Rodriguez, an El Pasoan and chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus, charged that cutting funding is part of a broader attack by the Texas GOP on women’s health.

“This latest political attack on Planned Parenthood will cut off access to health care for more than 13,000 Texas women who currently receive basic health care through Medicaid and Planned Parenthood,” Rodriguez said in an email.

El Paso has two clinics that provide abortions as well as pregnancy testing and screens for cervical and breast cancer. Both face an uncertain future as the U.S. Supreme Court weighs whether to take up a case on the constitutionality of abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013.

“Sadly, despite our strong and vocal opposition, the Texas Legislature and state administration have continued in their political agenda to deny Texas women access to reproductive health care,” Wednesday’s letter to CMS said.

In addition to Rodriguez, it was signed by El Paso Reps. Marisa Marquez, Joe Moody, Mary Gonzalez and Cesar Blanco. Rep. Joe Pickett, also a Democrat, was the only member of the the El Paso delegation not to sign the letter.